Welcome to near space.

Near space starts at roughly 65,000 feet and the temperature is similar to Mars.

Meet the Swifty 3

The Swifty is an autonomous, zero-emission, high-altitude robot that makes frequent flights into the stratosphere flying between 60,000 and 85,000 feet in the air – via a sophisticated weather balloon.

Swiftys capture a whopping 400 – 1,000 sq km of imagery per flight, roughly the size of all of New York City’s five boroughs, at 10 cm per pixel resolution. Our nimble technology is built with our customers in mind – and provides high-resolution, high-frequency imagery with customizable capture abilities. In other words, high-quality geospatial data without tradeoffs.

The Swifty is a one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly solution broadening access to high-quality geospatial Earth imagery. 

Near Space Labs' Swifty 3 robot flying via a zero-emission weather balloon

Product Specifications

Resolution

10 cm per pixel

Revisit Rate

Quarterly

Delivery Format

Geotiffs, Scene API, XYZ Tile Service

Bands

RGB

Georeferencing

Direct + Indirect feature matching process with GCPs
Accuracy 5 m CE90.

Default
Processing

Fast non-local means denoising
Sigmoidal contrast and white balancing.
Image-based atmospheric correction.

Capture Angles

Nadir & up to 30 degrees off-nadir

Swifty Dashboard

Flight hours logged

km2 imaged to date

Images Captured

Onboard Lines of Code

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